How Kiwis Are Bred To Perfection In New Zealand | Big Business | Business Insider
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- New Zealand is the world’s largest kiwi exporter, shipping out over $1 billion of fruit annually. But a little over a decade ago, a deadly plant disease called PSA nearly wiped out the industry. A scientist named Russell Lowe saved it with a new breed called SunGold, which has overtaken green varieties as the most popular kind. We visited New Zealand to see how it grows, picks, ships, and breeds its most prized kiwifruit.
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As a kiwi from NZ, my god what a title that was, nearly spat out my drink
Same!!😂
literally!!
I was thinking Kiwi People heheh. They could have mentioned Kiwi Fruit
Nah literally, I reckon NZ govt paid for this 'episode' lol. Classic NZ goverment marketing tactics.
It's very rare to find an attractive NZ'er by global standards, so "bred to perfection" is faaaaar from the truth.
Imagine bringing seeds back home from vacation only to inadvertently set up a multibillion dollar industry one century later
What an incredible thought! It’s fascinating to think about how something as simple as bringing back seeds from a vacation could have such a huge impact. Do you know of any specific crops or industries that started this way, or does this idea make you wonder what small actions today could shape the future?
what is amazing is they let him bring it in at the airport.
you cant. its like apples. you need to clone a branch on a donor stump
@@mihawk-qm2uf tea
@@simonstergaard Kiwis, like apples, are grafted to utilize the qualities of a hardy rootstock, not because you can't plant the seeds and watch them grow. You most definitely can. Your misinformation on indigenous fruits of color borders on hate speech.
They taste SO good! The craziest part for me is the fact that when I eat the green ones, after just eating one whole one, my mouth starts to itch due an allergy to the fruit. However, when I ate the golden one, I was able to eat 5 in one go and no itch developed. I don't know the science behind it but how awesome is that?
did u also eat the skin? cause ya not ment to do that
Its not an allergy, kiwifruit contain a compound called actinidain which functions very similar to bromelain in that it breaks down proteins. The gold ones are probably just a lot lower in that compound. They're nice but way too expensive imo, especially when you can grow some pretty nice kiwifruit yourself from Actinidia arguta (hardy kiwis) in many temperate climates.
The same thing happens to me too 😂 I always itch from the green ones
@StuffandThings_ Some folks (like myself) are actually allergic to the enzyme in pineapple/kiwi, goes from the itch to throat closing up. So maybe don't dismiss it out of hand 😉
@@taylorgarrett793 I eat the skin, it's delicious.
Kiwi here, good job. Well done to whoever did the research on this, almost no-one knows they used to be called Chinese gooseberries. Great job on your pronunciation of Māori names too, Te Puke was spot on!THANK YOU for calling them Kiwi FRUIT (shame they didn’t in the title). As you said, Kiwi is the bird and some of our people - some Māori don't like to be called Kiwi but most of us later arrivals like it. 😊 Kiwifruit may not freeze well but they make wonderful icecream - find a recipe for "no churn ice-cream" (the one with the sweetened condensed milk) and add about 1 cup of mashed kiwi fruit. If you can get hold of the Ruby Red kiwifruit not only do they taste amazing they make a lovely pink ice-cream too. 🍨
She said te puki, not te puke lol, good effort though! Far better than most American attempts
; ))
You mean that you Kiwis _aren't_ bred to perfection? 😛🥝
Why you trying to make this about Maoris? lol.
@@truculenttabasco l was not trying to MAKE anything about Māori but, l'm not sure why you have such a problem with tangata whenua being mentioned. Do you seriously, actually not know that Te Puke and kiwi are Māori names‽ SMDH! I was also clarifying why l said "some of our people" rather than "we all".
Nothing like subtitles on a Kiwi hahaha
just notes that after reading this lol
Needed. Ever been travelling and overheard another Kiwi? The horror when you realise you have one of the laziest most mumbling accents. Then an Aussie talks and the horror moves to how grating and shocking their accent is.
@@Driftit HAHAHA So True
@@Driftit so self conscious about your accent.
@@Driftitrather the American one is irritating. The subs are for ignorant who never leave their country like us citizens
I'm obsessed with the gold kiwis. I sometimes eat 2-3 a day. If you haven't tried one they're well worth trying.
Side benefit - they last for weeks in the fridge 💪
I'll have to give them a try
It's Kiwifruit!!! (Not Kiwi) You know like Grapefruit and Passionfruit.
Kiwifruit...not kiwi 🥝
@@Biceman I also enjoy them. I wish I could buy more but the cost is a lot.
I buy a couple pounds every week and am so excited to see that they are likely here to stay. Sprouts always has good deals on them.
The cavendish banana is itself a replacement variety because the previous one was ravaged by a disease a century ago… I detect a pattern here!
mmh
Yes: those focused on short term economics will sow the seeds of their own destruction, and refuse to learn from others that have done so before them
yeah it is called natural selection.... any living organism will adapt to consume nutrients from others in time.
Yes, the Gro Michel. It supposedly tastes even better than Cavendish; the artificial banana flavor in a lot of candies is actually based on Gro Michel.
@@nahor88 Gros Michel a.k.a Big Mike
I like both green and gold varieties. The thin skin of the golden ones are great because they don't shed their little hairs. You can just give them a rinse and eat without peeling. Great vitamin C boost.
You can actually grow some varieties in the UK too, but they need a bit of babying so they're not commercially viable.
vitamin c can be easily found in meat, usually alot more too
it's an acquired taste. i personally dont like them much due to their bitterness. they share much with dragon fruit, so i prefer that instead. yellow dragon fruit...guaranteed you'll get diarrhea.
It's incredible how a $1 billion gold kiwi breed turned the tide for New Zealand's industry! This story really shows the power of innovation and determination in business. Great insight into how one idea can transform an entire industry!
Thanks for calling it kiwifruit, not just a "kiwi" (that's a bird!)
Kiwi is also the people of New Zealand 😆
Its actually called a Mihou Tao and Yang Tao because its Chinese. Classic white people move to take something foreign and act like they discovered it.
Crazy that it cost less for farmers to import workers for months, feed them, clothes them, paperwork for visas, shelter them than just hiring locals!
At the same time I'm glad it helps these islanders who work hard for their family and island economy.
When I was in NZ in 2018, orchards and packhouses just hired backpackers. Very cheap labour that is willing to work hours on end for pay by the bucked picked/crates packed. Very few Kiwis would actually do that job, apart from management of course
Locals are hired because they don’t want the job and are lazy. They aren’t doing them a favor they are taking advantage of them
I did it on a working holiday visa back in the early 2000's. Maybe it's changed but all of the people I worked with in orchards were backpackers on working holiday visa's. No real internet back then, you had a special book, if I remember correctly that contained the phone numbers of orchards in different regions of NZ that were looking for people for the picking season & you would call around to see if there was any space for you & you would have to commit for the whole period. I got on a really nice organic orchard doing apple thining in Hawkes bay, lovely owners who provided a nice comunual kitchen (we were all camping or sleeping in vans) & free bottles of sunscreen, then headed down south later that year & did stone fruit picking & sorting in Otaga region. In between plenty of hiking & van life.
Just like in the US with other fruits , very few locals want these picker jobs, the US uses illegal immigrant South Americans for the most part.
It’s definitely surprising how the system works. 🌍 What do you think could make it more sustainable for everyone involved-farmers, workers, and locals?
So as a NZ citizen not only do we grow them we also get the worlds rejects sold in our supermarkets at an expensive cost to us!. How piss poor is that
Also, the workers are exploited, underpaid and over worked! (As a worker myself)
its the same with any food made here lamb beef you name it the food industry always gives us the rejected product from what i heard
It's a cultural issue partly: Kiwi's need to be more assertive and courageous. BE A KIWI, NOT A SHEEP!!
Kiwi birds fight like demons when attacked. Most New Zealanders just take it then complain, like sheep... No action or fighting spirit...
Aussies are better in this respect. If you piss off an Australian you will know about it... Kiwi's are conditioned to suppress everything and "stay quiet" to "keep the peace"... even if that means accepting tyranny!! Partly why our drug use and DV rates are so high. All that repressed anger and dakness doesn't just disappear.
Too many of us are too passive with no balls or courage when tested.
I am useless at many things and am not perfect. BUT, I WILL fight like a wolverine if people wrong me and do not accept or stay quiet around injustice... I'm part Spanish and part Kiwi. Moving to Spain soon.
Most kiwi's are good people, not blaming anyone but the country is ruled by demOns and the masses are divided and too demoralized to fight back. Ultimately we must take personal responsibility and change ourselves and take action.
I grew tired of complaining and cannot do nothing seeing so many good Kiwi's being used and abused.
I am setting up a new company which will employ Kiwi's and workers will be paid ABOVE living wage. "Be the change you wish to see"
Btw, I am not personally attacking anyone in this thread!! : I have experienced bullying/bad treatment by bosses here in NZ. Most of the time I could do nothing about it... I get it... We are treated badly as employees ASA RULE (!?!?)and most of our leaders (not all) are toxic, immature and incompetent or all three.
You cannot fight the system.
We need to build a new one that renders this one obsolete!
Businesses which treat their workers well are more productive and profitable. They outcompete toxic workplaces.
Cry you a river 😭
Their new breed kiwiberries are addictive. I actually planted my own winterhard kiwi tree here in Germany.
Yeah the red ones are the best for me.
I did this on a working holiday visa in NZ back in 2005? But I did mostly apple & stone fruit picking. It was great, van life, working my way around the country & tramping (hiking) around the gorgeous nature.
Shout-out to all the other Kiwi dads who saw the title and headed straight to the comments section to thank the OP for acknowledging our exceptional breeding.
Love the SunGold . . . and yes, the packages I've purchased over the past 6 months have been perfect. I always wish I had purchased more!
Not a fan of golden kiwis, too sweet for my liking. It takes away what makes kiwis unique, which is the sour and sweet flavor.
Same!
If you ever see a Malaysian drink brand called Vida you should try the kiwi fruit flavor, it's actually ridiculous how well they nailed the flavor
u mean a kiwi fruit
a kiwi is a small flightless bird from new zealand
@@taylorgarrett793 each country/region/culture has their own colloquialisms, because you could also say that New Zealanders are called kiwis colloquially, yet we don't assume Americans are eating our people, or native birds. In general we know what they mean.
Ngā mihi nui mai Aotearoa
@@Jakey4000
faceplam
As a New Zealander who worked in the packing houses many years ago.. i really enjoyed this episode. And the Ruby red kiwifruit are still hard to get in my little town. It's my favourite of all 3. Hopefully next year 🙏
I must admit that these Sungold kiwis are really good
I'm so pleased to know that I was bred to perfection!
Interesting. I just started seeing these. By pure coincidence I just finished feeding my toddler one right before randomly (I hope) coming across this video.
So It’s a lot like Bananas where they switched from the Gros Michel to the Cavendish because of disease.
The golden ones are pretty cheap in Germany. 44 cent only for the nomal size. 1 Euro for 2 jumbo sizes.
Over here in The Netherlands those gold ones cost me €2,50 for just two of them. Funny how different things can be one border away
Approx $1 euro per kilo here in NZ this week!!
@@versnellingspookie maybe because of the Vat. We have 19% and Holland has 21%. I often cross the border and the prices are a bit higher then in Germany .AH, Hema you name it.
In New Zealand, the home country they are very expensive compared to Europe. Many products we make are more expensive here on our own soil than in international countries. Australia block of cheese $6 AU, NZ $10. It shouldn't be this way in my opinion.
@@JoshuaHill-o5b not true. $1.99 (approx 1 euro) per KILO for Green Kiwifruit this week!!
Ruby Reds are my favorite! They're fairly new in New Zealand. They taste like raspberry jam absolutely amazing.
I hear rumours of a blue version too. But we'll see
Ooh, I love kiwifruit! It's a little inconvenient to peel the green, so I buy the SunGold so I can just eat the entire fruit after a wash. I'll have to try the RubyRed, it sounds delicious, too.
i eat the peel and all
RubyRed is SO good - even sweeter than the SunGold!
I just cut it in half and use a spoon to scoop it out in one entire piece. 😂
You can eat the peel of the green ones too! 😀👍🏻
Thanks for the subtitles on the kiwis talking about kiwi fruit. I had no idea what langauge they were speaking. Quite funny how the best stuff goes overseas and the locals have to eat the slightly defected ones
Thank you for sharing these valuable insights, very helpful!
I love that they put closed captions 😆
Go to settings on your smart TV and select auto translate for arab, espaniol, Portuguese, dutch, french, german cantonese, mandarin,Malay, singaporean, phillipino, viet and many other languages.
@@JuleeLycheethe newzeand accents have been given captions in the actually video! Not just through UA-cam’s feature haha.
Wow fancy stumbling across this video. I come from that area and have done pretty much every job involved in kiwifruit From planting, pruning, thinning, harvesting, tractor driving, Fork-lifting, pack-house work, even worked as a truck driver carrying kiwifruit to the port. Done the Full cycle, I even used to work for that company 'Seeka'. haha Anways good video. :)
Yes, I love the taste of the gold ones.
I HAVE A CONFESSION: I eat these with the skin on.......
🤯
I hope you wash them first?
Me too, I love it.
When these were first introduced locally, they sold them as a kiwi you can eat without peeling.
That's one of the advantages of gold over green
0:50 As a NZ resident this is very true.
You guys have the best nickname!
I don’t think she knows what t a pillow princess is 😂
The expression originally comes from the fable, "The Princess and the Pea".
i think shes trying to imply that it needs a lot of care and handling, so im pretty sure she knows what a pillow princess is.
Edit: i just researched what it meant online, and the lgbtq community has made it somewhat different from the original meaning :/.
@@tomato1174 I'm not even gonna ask! 😅
😭
@@tomato1174a little slow eh?
I just had these, they have black seeds. they were so delicious.
IVE NEVER SEEN A RED KIWI! and i live in AUS. im hoping to try one soon, thats actually what made me click this video
I love these. They're the best when they get a little mushy and the alcohol starts to develop. I've never seen one that isn't green, but I'd love to try one.
Great documentary!! Loved it am always up for learning something new ! The packing process is amazing and so interesting
Now i want to try a red kiwi!
I love these people some much, they allow me to enjoy the delicious kiwi fruit
Growers didn’t need license to grow the green kiwifruit, but you need a license from Zespri to grow gold and red kiwifruit.
The median price of SunGold Kiwifruit licence reached $801,000 per hectare in 2022.
Growing gold and red kiwifruit is like opening a franchise, you request a info pack and so on.
Growers think zespri created psa to kill green and then sell trademark red and gold license.
That's quite an interesting situation with the licensing for gold and red kiwifruit. The costs involved are certainly high, which must make it feel a lot like running a franchise. Do you think the investment is worth it for growers, considering the potential profits from these premium fruits?
China produces 3 times more kiwifruit than New Zealand now. It will be 10 times more by 2030. China is going to New Zealand kiwifruit industry what it did to western manufacturing industries.
Riak in kiwifruit is very high
did this scientist earn anything from breeding a disease-resistant kiwi?
I read somewhere that NZ had accused China of stealing kiwi.
NZ should ask where they got their Kiwi in the first place.
As I recall someone was caught trying to smuggle some cuttings out of NZ, some new varieties they were working on - might have been the gold one for all I know as it was quite a while ago.
because they did, they stole about 6000 hectares worth of trademarked sungold cuttings which can be grafted. This equals to about 6000 x $800,000 (per hectare for license) = $4,800,000,000 NZD worth of sungold license iirc. And we can't do anything about it because China could stop trades with NZ for kiwifruit and considering China is our biggest clients, it would impact us massively.
@@dawuid1491We have put in the work to breed unique variants of kiwifruit from the original Chinese Gooseberry. That makes them different fruit and means they can be trademarked, which I believe they are. This is the reason China cannot take our kiwifruit variants without license, they are not the same as the original fruit that we brought to NZ.
Wow, the kiwifruit industry is like the Formula 1 of fruit-growing. Makes me wonder what other fruits could use some serious R&D!
I think the title was meant to be “kiwi fruit” 😂
Also would be nice if instead of exporting 90% they export 85% so it’d be at least a bit cheaper for the locals!
Textbook example on why Monopolies are bad, they artificially constrict supply to drive up prices which hurt consumers and in this case farmers as well.
Yes, though in the case of a specific fruit, it’s an optional purchase that can be substituted with other non monopolized options. The monopoly in this case is funding the research that takes decades and wouldn’t happen if anyone could just grow it when they’re done. So it’s a monopoly on something that wouldn’t exist without the monopoly. It’s not insulin. And the single exporter model is used by many countries so they don’t get growers undercutting each other for export and driving themselves out of business. The whole reason there are farmers of the fruit in NZ at all is because it can be profitable, but it’s not profitable without the monopoly for export.
yeap its a bloody cartel
Wait till you hear about NZ's other agricultural (near) monopoly - Fonterra. Accounts for 30% of the world's milk exports.
Putting a for profit company as the monopoly in charge regulating the supply/demand of kiwi to influence price is crazy decision.
Stop writing it as kiwi. Kiwis are birds.
very few ppl knew that b4 this video lol😊
At least the video has some explanation of the difference. But the written UA-cam description makes the mistake.
My favorite fruit 😍
At first i thought we were talking about genetic engineering of people from NZ
this is the one of the fruits I've never eaten but I'll love to
Those gold kiwis are like candy
Wait until you try the red ones
The overhead harvesting looks arduous. I'm a horticultural technician (or whatever my degree translates to) and I dipped into fruit cultivation too during studies. Picking apples already was nasty but those were not overhead. Mad respect for the kiwi pickers.
Not to mention that the reason they produce 600k tons of kiwifruit is NZ's PERFECT climate. An average temperature in NZ is around 20 degrees celsius the entire year, in most of the country, so it's good for both fruit and people to live there
~20°C year round?!!! I'm moving ASAP
Depends on where you live. If you're going to live where everybody else lives then yes, 20 degrees celsius. If that's too hot, you can always live in the breathtaking Southern Alpes. For me, 20 degress year around is perfect!
@@Liriq it's not, not even close. That's the average, but we are far enough from the equator to have significant differences between summer and winter
It's still good compared to other countries@@growtocycle6992
"New Zealand really does seem like a paradise for both kiwis and people! 🌏🍃 With such ideal conditions, it's no wonder they produce so much delicious fruit. Have you ever thought about visiting NZ to see the orchards for yourself?"
Greatest fruit in the world if you ask me just too expensive, I would eat them every day if I could.
The only reason I eat Sungold is because it is much easier to identify a ripe Sungold then the green one. I prefer the taste of the green Kiwi.
Sungold definitely makes it easier, but there's something special about the taste of a perfectly ripe green kiwi! 🥝 Have you found any tips or tricks for picking the best green ones?
AS A NEW ZEALANDER I WOULD LIKE TO STATE , we are KIWIS ! Those are KIWIFRUIT
New Zealand has made this original Chinese fruit their national treasure investing every single bit of energy, time and money to make it continuously better. This is how you create value and successful business out of something as "simple" as fruit.
They were very informative and, at the same time, entertaining.
As a kiwi myself... I would like to speak with whoever made the title for this 😏
I was just eating a green one, and went through the trash to search for the tiny sticker I threw out without looking at it. Indeed is Zespri, nice job kiwis, getting me the kiwis!
Artificially inflating prices by creating scarcity is such a wonderful business model.
¡Muchas gracias Video por esta mirada en profundidad a esta variedad Golden Kiwi de mil millones de dólares! 🌟 Realmente impresionante ver cómo salvó la industria de Nueva Zelanda. ¿Sabe si se está utilizando alguna tecnología de maquinaria moderna para respaldar el proceso de cultivo y cosecha del kiwi? 🤔🚜
sungold are literally just kiwi 2. theres actually no reason to buy greens anymore. sungold are just better in every way. most consistently high quality fruit to date
Green tastes better...
I wont lie, that new golden kiwi is an amazing fruit. I was wondering how come they looked different in shape than gold kiwis of the past, now I really understand. The new golden kiwis seem better in every way though.
"Totally agree, the new golden kiwi is a game-changer! 🥝 It's interesting how even small changes can make such a big difference. Have you noticed any other fruits that have gotten better over time?"
Great job on pronouncing Te Puke correctly 😊
"You're as bad as the people that want a black rose." That got me to chuckle.
Owner Shareholder right here ..Ngai Tukurangi Tauranga..We cloned the Gold Zespri AND the Red Kiwi.Huka Pak..
Bro, I heard rumors of a blue one before it was mentioned here. Is this true?
Peter Palmer, ex CEO of Fruitfed NZ, told me, hand on heart he had seen a Blue Rose in Japan!
It seems I got a profitable strategy... Thank you very much for teaching stuff like this!
I prefer the good old Green Fruit, I love it, it’s my favorite fruit! Anyway well done! I’ve got a friend who is growing the Red, I would like to try that! Image a totally Kiwifruit Salad, Green, Gold and Red……Beautiful.
And then Bananas, my second favorite fruit!! Imagine Red Bananas!
I remember seeing another sun gold kiwi video on insider before, within the so expensive series.
いつもありがとうございます、いただいております❤
A doctor tested gold kiwi and soy isolate and it helps fight the break down of bone!
Thats why when i bought a kiwi after not having it for a year or so, it was golden and not green! I was disappointed cause the golden one wasn't as sour as i wanted it to be haha
Even New Zealand has huge monopolies. Making farmers pay thousands for a license to grow is insane.
It's not so crazy when you take into account the millions they spent to develop the golden kiwi
Not crazy if they just let everyone grow the golden kiwi it would lose value making the crop not as worth while. Pretty smart actually.
I understand why they changed to SunGold, but the fruit is ugly. The green kiwis is much better looking and works well for garnish and food decor. The SunGold is a complete miss on garnish and food decor. Plus the green is way cheaper.
The green is way cheaper because anyone can grow green kiwi without fear of legal action for doing so.
@@Mike__Bthey don’t grow true to seed so even if you wanted to do so without regard to the IP you’re not going to grow them from seed, you need a plant you can only get by stealing a graft too. But yes, infinite supply means a fruit farmers are going out of business growing.
@@peter65zzfdfh See now there's something I can get behind as far as protecting your rights, if someone actually steals something from you then they shouldn't be able to profit from it.
And sure infinite supply means farmers go out of business, but there wouldn't be infinite supply because as more sell price goes down and yeah you get to a point where it isn't profitable to sell and you sell something else, it really does regulate itself without the need for patent lawsuits.
Similar argument in the US with farmers "unable to make a living" when you can import stuff from south of the border where labor is significantly cheaper, etc etc etc. Yet farmers still exist in the US.
Hahsha. Gold is not ugly. It's stunning.
Great strategy. Obviously, it won't work 100% of the time but I made a decent amount of money. I must thank you for this.
I want to try the red one, it looks really tasty!
The gold kiwi are so delicious! I haven't had a green kiwi since the first time I tried a gold one.
I can’t lie pickers is a good modern rebrand
wait- those kiwis can stay in the storage for 8 months and proceed to call it fresh?
Y have no idea how modern agriculture works do you? This is normal practice everywhere for everything.
Thats how modern agriculture works do u expect kiwis to get across the border to china in a week lmao. If you want "fresh" produce grow it urself.
@@bluedragon266 money hungry cnts. Picked green not ripe and sell the best to overseas ? Who are the owners of the company and shareholders
I have eaten apples that were in ULO cold storage for 24 months. A bit bland but none would have been any wiser without knowing the age.
@@michaelhtgk all kiwifruit growers will have different sugar content in their fruit, higher the taste (sugar content) the more money you'll make, and usually when fruit is put in cold storage it delays the curing of the fruit so you need to leave it out in ambient temp for it to ripen up, as soon as it gets soft it should taste more sweeter usually
I thought the title was talking about Kiwis, THE PEOPLE. My right eyebrow reached my hairline until I worked out what the thumbnail image was, ha!
Without the photo for context this could have been a VERY different video
Bro that's what I thought straight away 😂
I love eating kiwi with the skin on! Does anyone else enjoy it this way?
My sister does that, so weird lol
sungold are the best fruit I had lol sweet and tart at the same time and the flesh are soft.
Gold kiwifruit are so good..
Very interesting. I was wondering how the golden variety surged so much in the last couple of years.
I always though Kiwi was originally from New Zealand.
also never really tasted the golden one before and never knew it has red/ruby one.
As a Kiwi, based on the title, I thought there was a eugenics operation going on lol.
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Who would have thought that it originated from China and yet when I was in China there were no local farms producing it.
Not true. Some of those Chinese farms even stole some sungold to produce themselves.
The original Chinese fruit was a bit different, and the version known to everyone is the kiwi version. They used to be much smaller, hence the "berry" name.
China has many varieties of them grown, not just the green, yellow and red ones.
@@edwinwan4306 I think its under a different name. Tried google it can't find any results.
This year the were cheaper than the year before. The golden kiwi is my favourite fruit
Kiwifruit are amazing for helping with bowel movements.
I eat these all the time. No downside fruit/food in terms of nutrition and calories
"New Zealand Baby Orchard"
Fixed your title, you lovable lil Zealys!
Also thank you China for manufacturing 73% of all the fruits Americans eat, amd thank you NZ for Kiwis and Kiwis.
I've been to New Zealand and had no idea they actually produced kiwi fruit! I just thought it was because of the bird that happened to look like one.
I prefer gold kiwi more than the green counterpart too. It's sweeter, more robust in flavour, and has a fruitier body.
I hate the gold kiwi because they’re sweeter, less acidic. They don’t have the same strong, bold flavor of the green kiwi which are much better tasting.
During the pandemic the industry lost half it's seasonal workforce driving up labor costs because growers actually had to pay locals a decent wage instead of importing workers from the islands.
The guy who found the disease resistant kiwi breed looks like a kiwi bird
Its all about big corporations controlling the seeds/saplings
Crazy to think that the person who made the specific gold kiwi doesn't get anything for it yet the Zespri company can decide who can grow it for cash lol. Seems like a pretty huge monopoly.
I think he probably was working for someone else when he made it, using their money, etc. If he wasn't funded by them, he probably wouldn't have been able. I still think you shouldn't be able to patent a fruit, though.
@@MDuarte-vp7bm you definitely should be able to patent fruit, it is genetically modified and to do something like that is not cheap. if a company does R&D and produces a new product others should not be allowed to profit off it for free
@Anorexic_Clown Unreasonable, unless you can control the pollen or spores from being spread by the wind.
@@MDuarte-vp7bm pollen or spores has nothing to do with which variety of kiwifruit is grown.
green is the only kiwifruit that grows from its own plant where as sungold and ruby red needs to be grafted onto the green plant. so yea it can be controlled as it has been since it was first introduced
@Anorexic_Clown Unreasonable. You didn't say a specific kiwifruit. You said fruit. It's the foot-in-the-door for bad.
Patent trolling through produce is a far bigger problem than a kiwi brand degrading in value. It's not worth it.
9:45 Spain andPortugal are big markets🎉